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How Sweet the Sound : the Golden Age of Gospel by Boyer, Horace Clarence, 1935- is a music available to read on EtoBox.

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In How Sweet The Sound, Music Historian Horace Clarence Boyer Charts Gospel's Emergence As A Discrete Musical Style In The Early 1900s. He Details Its Heyday In The Years From 1945 To 1955 And Describes Its Development Through The 1960s, When The Soulful Strains Of The Once-churchbound Music Could Be Heard In The Finest Concert Halls In The Country. A Gospel Singer Himself, Boyer Brings Added Insight To The Story Of This Indigenous American Art Form And The People Who Created It. He Explains The Various Styles And Stages Of The Music, And Refers To More Than A Hundred Of Gospel's Finest, From Thomas A. Dorsey And Mahalia Jackson To The Soul Stirrers And Aretha Franklin. Rare Performance Photographs And Backstage Studies By Lloyd Yearwood Illustrate Boyer's Text. --from Publisher's Description. African American Sacred Folk Music: 1755-1945 -- Move On Up A Little Higher: 1945-55 -- And The Walls Came Tumbling Down: 1955-65 -- Conclusions: I Looked Down The Line And I Wondered: 1965 And Beyond. Text By Horace Clarence Boyer ; Photography By Lloyd Yearwood. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 260-263) And Indexes.

Who reads How Sweet the Sound : the Golden Age of Gospel?

Author

Boyer, Horace Clarence, 1935-

Publisher

Elliott and Clark Pub

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9781880216194

Category

music

Subjects

Music, History, Arts

Rating

4.8 / 5 (6 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14